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While Borges's writings have already generated mountains of commentary, his work as a translator has received little more than a passing nod. Efrain Kristal's close and detailed study of Borges's translations makes dramatically clear how they embody his whole view of writing--that all writing is a form of rewriting, that writers are essentially recreators. His translations are much more than linguistic renderings of an original--they are transformations--and Kristal's scrupulous reading of them shows them to be a fundamental part of the Borges canon. As translator, Borges more than fulfills Octavio Paz's claim: 'Everything we do is translation, and all translations are in a way creations.'<br>Alastair Reid

It is no surprise ... that translation figures large in Borges' poetics, and Kristal does an extraordinary job of tracing this trope throughout the blind writer?'s long career. <br>-- Virginia Quarterly Review

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Efrain Kristal is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at UCLA and author of Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa, also published by Vanderbilt University Press.

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